Yep! I could put that back in - it looked like long usernames were getting a <wbr> tag to break the space logically, but I was wrong in assuming that (just usernames with obvious breaks like spaces and underscores get that I think?)

It might be nice to have some logic that says if a username is X characters long insert a <wbr> tag in the middle of it… I’d prefer that type of break versus just dropping off one or two letters at the end like word-wrap: break-word does… though maybe that bothers me more than it bothers other folks?

I was actually just talking about this with @sam earlier… Discourse supports 15 character usernames, but unless you use a _ or . or something that causes a simple logical breakpoint a single word username 12+ characters long breaks on to two lines… which isn’t pretty ( look at my silly user name! )

One idea I had was to widen the space usernames get a bit, and take some of the padding out of the left of the topic content to eliminate any space “lost” to such an adjustment (the net loss to overall post content would end up being ~3px of width)

Here’s a gif that visualizes that change

It’s a bit of a fringe case, but I’ve seen it happen here and there across various discourse sites… so maybe it’s worth trying out.

I like the hummingbird layout well enough, but I am unwilling to commit to such a large scale change at this time. Still thinking about it. We’re also adding more “stuff” to the left gutter with badges, potentially… and full name also goes there, if you’ve turned that on, as noted in this topic.